Save Lives with Emergency Care in Uganda

Global Emergency Care (GEC), together with other development partners, was given the mandate from the Ministry of Health (MOH) to develop the first-ever National Diploma in Medical Emergency Care. This is against the backdrop of GEC’s successful support of the Diploma at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), together with other partners successfully setting up what was to be a self-sustaining Diploma program.

Uganda’s population of over 50 million people, the current gap requires over 500 trained and registered Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) to work on the ambulance. The Ugandan government aims to add over 100 ambulance vehicles by 2026, which will increase the number of EMTs required by at least another 200. Developing the curriculum has been one of the central pieces of GEC's work in Uganda. With GEC, and Ministry of Health efforts and engagements, in the past months, the National diploma curriculum was fully developed, approved and lunched by Ministry of Education, this was a great millstone in the development of emergency medical services in Uganda, GEC working together with Uganda ministry of Health is now working to the program to provide scholarship opportunities to the first cohort of students who will enroll in some of the selected health training institutions 2025-2026 academic year.